WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has issued a rule called: Cut Flowers Regulations; Removal of Chrysanthemum White Rust-Related Provisions.
The rule was published in the Federal Register on Oct. 8 by Kelly Moore, Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
Summary: We are amending the regulations governing the importation of fresh cut flowers to remove requirements for the importation of specific types of cut flowers from the regulations, and to list them in the U.S. Department of Agriculture database called the Agricultural Commodity Import Requirements instead. We are also removing entirely any restrictions on the importation of fresh cut flowers of the genera Chrysanthemum, Leucanthemella,...